Wed Jan 14 Sage Mac Lab 4711
Introduction to the students, the instructor, the course, the computer art studio facility.  Students show their best work and discuss the future directions they may wish to take.
THIS IS NOT A CRITIQUE.
Review Basics of Computer Use, Input: Scanning, (flatbed reflective, transmissive, Nikon 35 mm slide scanner (drawing tablet, video capture, digital cameras). Resolution: PPI, DPI
Assignment:
• For those who have not shown, bring in one or two of your best works
• Start experimenting (use manuals in labs) with Photoshop software

Read: Maxwell, Delle, The Emperor’s New Art?"

WEEK 2
Mon Jan 19 - OFF Martin Luther King Jr.

Wed Jan 21 Sage Mac Lab 4711
Discuss: Maxwell & why computer art has such a weak beginning in its incorporation and acceptance into art making practice and the concept of the stigma which sometimes surrounds computer art. Pose the question, "What are the pitfalls and dangers of working with computers in art?"

Studio: Scanning prep for presentation Study #1: A Scan Mon. Jan 26
Slide show of artists using scanning techniques in their work.

Read: Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
"The Judgement of Thamus" & "The Ideology of Machines: Computer Technology"

Assignment:
Prep for Study #1: A Scan

WEEK 3
Mon Jan 26
Discuss: Postman in relationship to technology, culture and technoculture. Luddite or sensible critic?
*Students present Study #1: A Scan

Review ToolBox Functions & Overview of Basic Menu Items
• allocating memory / purging prefs
• opening an image: preview page size, preview image size
• making simple selections: zooming, cutting, pasting
• restoring part of an image: use the option key
• digital painting: eyedropper tool, paint a selection, set a background color, using color palettes, change foreground color, using painting tools, brush size, paint options, modify brush shape
• cropping
• revert to original image
• adding text

Wed Jan 28
Visiting Artist from MFA in iEAR will exhibit and discuss his digital photographs and large plotter prints

Selection Techniques
• color range command, saving selections using alpha channels, working with the path tool

Studio: Prep for Study #2: Image Processing

Read: Mitchell, William J. The Reconfigured Eye. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1992.
Chapter 8 Computer Collage, Pages 163 to 188

WEEK 4
Mon Feb 2
*Students present Study #2: Image Processing

Discuss: Mitchell, Chapter 8 Computer Collage

Working with Layers
•  Layers palette, background layer, transparency, blending modes, layer options, layer masks

Wed Feb 4
Creating a Composite Photograph - choosing images, blending modes, embossing with lighting effects filters, chiseling and carving, creating drop shadows, building glows. Using techniques for expression and not just because they are there - starting to learn discipline and restraint in effects usage.

Studio: prep for Montage Study

Assignment:
Prep for Study #3: Montage Mon, Feb 9

WEEK 5
Mon Feb 9
*Students present Study #3: Montage

Wed Feb 11
Masking Techniques: quick mask, layer masks, etc. Storing masks.

Read: Mitchell, William J. The Reconfigured Eye. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1992.
Chapters 9 & 10 How to do things with pictures & The shadows on the wall, pages 191 - 223

WEEK 6
Mon Feb 16 OFF

Wed Feb 18
Discuss: Mitchell, Chapter 9 How to do things with pictures & Chapter 10 The Shadows on the Wall

Advanced Techniques & Color Correction & Manipulation: correcting images using levels, color balance, hue/saturation, and curves. Cleaning up dust and scratches, sharpening, retouching with rubber stamp, rescuing overexposed photographs, subduing backgrounds, enhancing foreground, softening focus

Studio prep study #4 Truth

Slide show of other artists who use issues of veracity in their work

Assignment:
Prep for Study #4: Truth

WEEK 7
Mon Feb 23
* Students present Study #4: Truth

Wed Feb 25
Visiting Artist to discuss his work and techniques

Discuss: Painting Techniques: painting tools, canvass size, making your own brushes, using separate layers for line work and color, adding textures, emphasizing brush strokes with alpha channels.

Students demonstrate techniques that they have discovered and share them with the class.

Studio prep for study #5: Still Motion

Read: Vitz, Paul C. & Arnold B.Glimcher. Modern Art & Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision.
New York: Praeger, 1984. Chapter 3 Light, Depth & Photography

Assignment:
Prep for Study#5: Still Motion

WEEK 8
Mon March 2
Discuss Vitz, Paul C. & Arnold B.Glimcher Chapter 3 Light, Depth & Photography

*Students present study #5: Still Motion

Wed March 4
Visiting Artist TBA

Output Methodologies: Digital output techniques, Combinations of digital output & traditional printing.  Film recording to 35mm, 4 x 5, Dye Sub, Ilfostar Ink Jet Printing, Iris: proofs, museum prints, Cactus prints, Platinum, Silver, basic color separations, b&w and color negative generation, etc.

Assignment:
Go through Director tutorials and show me sample movies, experiment

Check out Using Director Manual, Chapter two, "Understanding Director Basics"
Check out this website: http://www.macromedia.com

Read: Vitz, Paul C. & Arnold B.Glimcher. Modern Art & Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision.
New York: Praeger, 1984.
•  Chapter 4 Theorists in Science & Art
•  Chapter 5, Space & Time

WEEK 9
Mon March 9
OFF Spring Break

Wed March 11
OFF Spring Break

WEEK 10
Mon March 16
Discuss Vitz, Paul C. & Arnold B.Glimcher, Chapter 4 & 5

Overview Director: To animate: to bring to life
Conceptual geography, file formats, inbetweening, step recording, realtime recording.
Show Muybridge, animation reel, other samples of animation

Assignment:
Go through Director tutorials and show me sample movies on castmembers & sprites, tweening, onion skinning, behaviors

Wed March 18
Overview Director Visiting Artist to exhibit and discuss work

Studio prep for study #6: In-Between - scan a sequence of still actions and using onion skin and other techniques make them move. Then move this animation sequence via film loop and inbetween special. (For instance a bird flaps its wings, but does not stay in place - it moves through the air.)

Assignment:
Prep for Study#6: In-Between

Read: Vitz, Paul C. & Arnold B.Glimcher. Modern Art & Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision.
New York: Praeger, 1984.
•  Chapter 6, Form & Elements of Form
•  Chapter 7, New Varieties of Visual Experience

WEEK 11
Mon March 23
Discuss Vitz, Paul C. & Arnold B.Glimcher, Chapters 6 & 7

*Students present study #6: In-Between

Overview Director

Wed March 25
Overview Director
Experiment with onion skinning, auto transform, cast to time, reverse sequence, extras auto distort, etc.

Studio prep for study #7: Bounce Experiment with onion skinning, cast to time, etc.Think about velocity, impact, and the physics of materials in motion.

Assignment:
Prep for Study#7: Bounce

WEEK 12
Mon March 30
*Students present study #7: Bounce

Overview Director

Assignment:
Look at samples in Extreme 3D

Wed April 1
Overview Extreme 3D Basic concepts of working in 3D - wireframe, geometric primitives, materials, shading, rendering, animating in 3 space

Studio prep for study #8: Interact Work with Lingo: behaviors, etc. to enact interaction

Assignment:
Prep for Study #8: Interact

WEEK 13
Mon April 6
*Students present Study #8: Interact

Assignment:
Prep for Final Project: Transformation

Wed April 8
Studio Work individually with students

Assignment:
Prep for Final Project: Transformation

WEEK 14
Mon April 13
*FINAL CRITIQUE #3A Final Project: Transformation

Wed April 15
*FINAL CRITIQUE #3B Final Project: Transformation

WEEK 15
Mon April 20
*FINAL CRITIQUE #3C Final Project: Transformation

Wed April 22
EMAC EXHIBITION

WEEK 16
Mon April 27
Studio Work individually with students - Final Review

Wed April 29
Studio Work individually with students - Final Review